i have a problem installing linux from Cd-rom.so, i want to install it from hardisk. which files from the 3 cd's should i copy to my hardisk?
and after booting setup from a startup disk how should i specify the directory in which the image files are present?

michaelk

08-19-2004 06:04 PM

What distro are you planning to install? Are the ISO files saved on a NTFS partition?

Rehan1

08-19-2004 06:16 PM

I have copied the disks to /dev/hda5/Linux/Disk 1
/dev/hda5/Linux/Disk 2
/dev/hda5/Linux/Disk 3
I selected /dev/hda5 and wrote Linux/Disk 1 in the directory but I recieved the message "THE SPECIFIED FOLDER DOES NOT CONTAINS ANY IMAGE FILES"
the file system is FAT32

michaelk

08-19-2004 06:52 PM

All of the ISO images should be in the same directory.
Try using /linux/disk

which folders on the CD's contains Iso images. are the Rmps Iso iamges?what is the extension of iso images ?

michaelk

08-19-2004 07:45 PM

The extension of an ISO image is ISO. These are the files that contain the image of the CD as in fc2-i386-disc1.iso.

You still didn't specify which distribution you are installing.

Rehan1

08-20-2004 06:03 AM

I am installing Linux 9.
There is only one file in all the 3 cd's having .iso extension which is /Linux/Disk 1/images/boot.iso
I even selected the above directory during installation but it also didn't work.